{"id":43247,"date":"2014-03-26T02:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T02:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_supreme_court_divided_as_it_hears_argument_on_contraceptive\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T02:20:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T02:20:36","slug":"washington_post_supreme_court_divided_as_it_hears_argument_on_contraceptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43247","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Supreme Court divided as it hears argument on contraceptive coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A divided Supreme Court seemed inclined to agree Tuesday that the religious beliefs of business owners may trump a requirement in President Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act that they provide their employees with insurance coverage for all types of contraceptives.<\/p>\n<p>With both snow and demonstrators gathering on the sidewalk outside, it was difficult to predict a precise outcome from the spirited 90-minute argument.<\/p>\n<p>But a majority of the justices seemed to agree that the family-owned businesses that objected to the requirement were covered by a federal statute that gives great protection to the exercise of religion. That would mean the government must show the requirement is not a substantial burden on their religious expression, and that there was no less intrusive way to provide contraceptive coverage to female workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/at-supreme-court-today-health-law-cases-mix-questions-of-religious-freedom-worker-rights\/2014\/03\/25\/bf2aa6ce-b3c1-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html?hpid=z1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A divided Supreme Court seemed inclined to agree Tuesday that the religious beliefs of business owners may trump a requirement in President Obama\u2019s Affordable Care Act that they provide their employees with insurance coverage for all types of contraceptives. With<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43247\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,589,149,168,104,114,96,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}